At the United Nation's meeting yesterday in Bali, Indonesia, children were present. These children were taking part in a program that they call Zoom. Atleast 128,000 children have made the choice to help make the Earth a greener place by walking or riding bikes to school, using greener forms of transportation. The children's goal was to make a greener footprint, one foot print for each trip to school. Most of the children that attended the conference came from Europe and aimed to make enough footprints to go around the world twenty times.
When the Children presented their efforts to the United Nations, they presented enough green footprints to go around the Earth almost eighty times which is about 1,457,039 green footprints. The children showed the delegates that a little bit of change in daily life makes a huge impact, and that more changes will help even more.
The issue of deforestation seems to be the hardested debated one in the last few hours of the conference, according to Marcelo Furtado of Brazil. Some of the countries do not realize how important it is to control this, and that deforestaion really is a problem. In accordance to Furtado, the developing countries are looking for quick cash, and the developed countries are looking for cheap carbon credits.
Carbon Credits are, "A tool for certifying carbon emission reductions, from fuel switching, technology change, carbon sequestration, or other means. Carbon credits can be traded in carbon markets, such that clean energy producers can sell credits to facilities that pollute more, thus offsetting emissions at the least possible cost."
(http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/energyfuture/glossary.html)
Louis Palmer made a trip to Bali from Switzerland in a completely solar powered car. Palmer has now traveled 13,5oo kilometers and not once were greenhouse gases emitted, nor was as much noise as a regular vehicle heard. Several Swiss universities as well as the UN, Switzerland, and the company Q-cell are involved in the developement of this solar taxi. With out sunshine, the car can run for 300 km and with, it can run for about 400km at a time. The cost right now is as much as two feraris according to Palmer, but as the mass produce them, or if they mass produce them, the cost will go down.
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It is very interesting that the UN brought children into the meeting in Bali. Do you know some of the suggestions that the children made?
The only part of the confrence that they were involved with was the ZOOM organization. The children were not really asked about anything else pertaining to global warming other than why they participated in the organization.
The solar taxi bit was very interesting. Maybe we should take a whole class period to discuss this conference in Bali and what was decided...
I think that it is great that the children participated, showing how global warming effects everyone at different ages and how they react to it.
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